Zoning Hearing Set For Wednesday On Subdivision Rules
A public zoning hearing will be held Wednesday in Winchester Hall at 8 p.m. to discuss new Subdivision Regulations by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Chairman Daniel E. Wight outlined key aims to balance road safety, water, and sewer concerns with growth, noting the need to protect health and welfare while enabling responsible development. The session will explain how subdivisions require maps, plans, and street and utility guarantees, with exemptions for small parcels and farm areas.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
Winchester Hall
Daniel E. Wight
Wight
Frederick County
Planning Commission
Aty
Mercury To Stay Around 40 In Area
A cold snap continues with highs near 40 and lows in or just above 30. Sunshine gives way to light gray clouds by midmorning as fog lifted after two dense days. Temperatures dip to high 20s tonight with a moderately cold sunny day on Sunday.
New Piece Added To Spears Puzzle In FBI Probe
FBI agents received a mysterious package from Dallas at Phoenix Airport shortly after a Phoenix landing. Authorities say it was handed to two agents by an airliner captain, as part of the investigation into ex-convict Robert Vernon Spears and the Gulf of Mexico crash. Spears, arrested January 20 in Phoenix for interstate transport of a stolen car, is linked to a possible bomb plot on the airliner. His wife in Dallas reports a fellow ex-convict named Wiram Allen Taylor took Spears’ seat on the plane. Only 13 bodies were recovered from the wreck. Navy ships searched the Gulf wreckage but paused due to 35 mph winds. divers at 240 feet depth reported near-zero visibility amid grap mud and hard current.
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Phoenix. Ariz
Robert Vernon Spears
FBI
Dallas
Phoenix
Spears
Gulf of Mexico
Wiram Allen Taylor
Tampa
Fia
Louisiana
Pangborn Estate to Fund St Anne's Church in Hagerstown
Inheritance from John C. Pangborn allocates funds for a Catholic church in Hagerstown area to be named St. Anne's Church in memory of his mother Anna Pangborn. The will provides legacies to widow Olive R. Pangborn and various religious, charitable and educational unions, with trustees including his widow and Thomas W. Pangborn.
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Hagerstown
John C. Pangborn
Hazerstown
Pangborn
Iso
Olive R. Pansvorn
Enis
Notre Dame Universit
Anna Pangborn
Thomas W. Pangborn
William L. Galvin
Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co
Baltimore
Scholarships Offered To Local Students In Health Fields
Local students will compete for $2,000 scholarships in health fields announced by Goodloe Byron director of the March of Dimes. The fund aids crippling birth defects arthritis and polio with scholarships for nursing occupational therapy physical therapy and pre medical study. Doris Jean Lee the local winner from Urbana is pursuing a BS in nursing at the University of Maryland. The Mothers March raised over $2,550 in one evening and organizers hope to hit $10,000 in this drive while continuing assistance to polio cases and surveying arthritis and Salk vaccine uptake.
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Goodloe Byron
National Foundation
Doris Jean Lee
University of Maryland
Lee
William F_ Le
Mear Urbana
Igh
Byron
March of Dimes Dre
Ior
March of Dimes
Mothers March
Fire Drives 30 Tenants From Gettysburg Building
Gettysburg Pennsylvania residents flee as a four story panel House State ment building is gutted on the top two floors by a blaze that also damages the rest of the brick structure. Officials cite a possible short circuit or overheated flue as the cause. Public assistance offices occupy much of the first floor. no damage estimate given.
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Gettysburg
Maar
State
State Public Assistance
Wiliam G. Weaver
Civil Defense
Two Youths Arrested In Train Sniping
In Philadelphia last night police arrested John Roulster and Martin Kennedy both youths in the Pennro Railroad Congressional Limited sniping. Harry Friedlander a Baltimore salesman was wounded when a bullet shattered a train window near Tacony. He received ontrain aid and was later hospitalized in critical condition with a bullet removed from his head. Kennedy admitted firing the shot as the train passed at about seventy miles per hour.
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Philadelphia
Pennxia
Congressional Limited
John Roulster
Martin Kennedy
Harry Friedlander
Baltimore
A. Jacobs and Sons Inc
Tacony
Friedlander
H. B. Cates
Wilmington
Dei
Trenton
N.J
St. Francis Hospital
Kennedy
Ft Detrick Workers To Get Small Pay Increase
More than 680 Fort Detrick employees will receive pay raises averaging about five to seven cents an hour, totaling around $60,000 for local staff. The boosts follow a federal wage board review and are set to take effect mid February for wage board workers nationwide.
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Fort Detrick
Detrick
Wage Board
army-Air Force Board of Pay
AEC Could Test Weapons On Short Notice If Ban Is Lifted
The Atomic Energy Commission said it could begin testing new nuclear weapons on short notice if the current moratorium ends. In its annual report to Congress the AEC noted a large backlog of devices ready for testing and ongoing work to develop smaller, faster weapons for ground forces, artillery, missiles, aircraft, and submarines.
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AEC
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Congress
Nevada
Eisenhower
Iself
Ima
Farmers Wives Begin Night School For Home Economics
About 25 wives of Young Farmers members will attend a Tuesday night session organized by the Extension office. The female group will focus on home economics rather than farming, with teachers Beatrice Fehr and Adele Nimmer leading sessions on good meals and related topics.
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Beatrice Fehr
Adele Niiner
Agen
Western Maryland Trust Company Directors and Officers Elected
The Western Maryland Trust Company held its annual stockholders meeting this week electing directors Dr Norvell Bell Casper Cline Jr Gail L Cutshall Elmer J Eshieman James H Grove Lemuel D Keller Richard Rune James Mes Officers are James president Brest R Sh Elmer I Eshier Denis Facob G Shav urer Edgar E Thames secretary Meredith H Mackles Weasurer Virginia C Encie assistant secre Vernon Sum Tore assistant trust
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Western Maryland Trust Company
Norvell Bell
Casper E. Cline Jr
Gail L. Cutshall
Elmer J. Eshieman
James H. Grove
Lemuel D. Keller
Richard Rune
James Mes
James
Brest R. Sh
Elmer I. Eshier
Facob G. Shavurer
Edgar E. Thames
Meredith H Mackles
Virginia C. Encie
Asistant Secre
Vernon Sum- Tore
Eye Throwing AL Homes Is Investigated
State Police investigated a report of two carloads of boys speeding through Yellow Springs and throwing eggs at houses vehicles and pedestrians. Witnesses provided license numbers and several boys were to be picked up for questioning. Mrs. Austin R Kerseres house on Hamburg road was splattered with eggs after a barrage near Yellow Springs park.
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Yellow Springs
Iil
Austin R. Ker Seres
Hamburg Road
T 1
Paratroops begin operation to seal insurgent camps in Algiers
Paris reports Brig. Gen. Jean Gracieux led paratroops to seal off insurgent encampments in Algiers after Territorial troops were ordered to return to command. The move aimed to assert army control amid Lagaillarde and Ortiz leadership while De Gaulle’s unity call echoed in banner headlines.
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Parisap
Alers
Pren
Jean Gracieux
Pierre Lagaillarde
Joseph Ortiz
Charles de Gaulle
Fritaght
Algiers
de Gaulle
Michel Debre
Senate
Gaston Monnerville
Monnerville
Thurmont Sportsman Dies at Home in Thurmont
Louis Jones, a well known Thurmont sportsman in his 80s, was found dead at his home about nine this morning after suffering a heart condition. He wrote a column in the Thurmont weekly and leaves a brother John Jones of Thurmont. Funeral arrangements are handled by M. L. Creager in Thurmont.
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Louis $. Jones
Thurmont
Jones
John Jones
M. L. Creager
Wee Women Pick Out Shirts With Starch Backbone
A fragment shows advice to choose two shirts with heavy starch to provide extra backbone and structure. The line suggests a preference for stiff fabric and crisp appearance.
Chessman Denied Petition Faces Eighth Death Date
San Francisco AP report detailing Daryl Chessman’s appeal denial by U S District Judge Louis E Goodman and his impending execution on San Quentin’s death row. The 38 year old California convict, convicted in 1948 for kidnap robbery and sex crimes, seeks relief from habeas corpus while noting cruel and unusual punishment and a non existent death penalty law. Judge Goodman declined stay and suggested possible avenues through state clemency or the California Supreme Court.
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San Francisco
Daryl Sman
San Quentin
Gro
U.S . of Appeals
Los Angeles
Louis E. Goodman
Chessman
Goodman
California Supreme Court
Edmund G. Brown
California
State Supreme Court
Braun
Brown
Ree Morse
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